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  • AI For Humans
  • AI Inside
  • AI Today Podcast
  • Eye on AI
  • Gradient Dissent
  • Interconnects
  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
  • Me, Myself, and AI
  • No Priors
  • Practical AI
  • The AI Daily Brief
  • The AI Native Dev
  • The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • The Cognitive Revolution
  • The TWIML AI Podcast
  • Training Data

Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

6 topics highlighted · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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Topic attention across published weeksEach colored line uses the same attention scale. Only topics with published measurements are shown; their shares do not necessarily total 100%. Breaks mean missing measurements, not zero. Dated dots open that topic and week below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%Jul 13Jul 20Jul 27Aug 3Aug 10Aug 17Aug 24Aug 31Sep 7Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28Adoption Use Cases: About the same in the latest reportAdoption Use Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

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Regulation · 3.9% · Sep 14–20, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Regulation

Laws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.

Sep 14–20, 2026

3.9%About the sameDown 2 percentage points from last week

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Regulation, week by weekDated controls show each week's attention share. Gaps mean no qualifying measurement, not zero. Select a week to read its discussion below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%
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Regulation · Sep 14–20, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 5.9% to 3.9%, with evidence across 6 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.” and “Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC”.
How to read it
5 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 6 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

11 quoted moments · 5 episodes · 4 podcasts

AI For Humans

Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.

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    “Legal licensing. That was what— AI ah molasses. The molasses of licensing. That's where AI molasses comes in, everybody.”
    Play from 47:44

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Latent Space

Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC

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    “I uh won't get into the details, but it's a subcommittee of NIST that typically sets standards. Uh, so it's basically a government body that has AI experts. Yeah, exactly.”
    Open episode and seek to 29:50

    ConceptRegulation

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    “is there enough technical expertise in the government to measure, test these things right now? Probably not, right?”
    Open episode and seek to 30:00

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    “the pace of legislation is too slow to deal with pinpointing the risks here”
    Open episode and seek to 30:18

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The Cognitive Revolution

The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well

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    “I don't think the US government is going to be as capable of like keeping like a specific, like sort of uh sophisticated level of control and oversight”
    Open episode and seek to 39:52

    ConceptRegulation

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    “I also think that what you articulated there, my growing sense is that that's kind of what the Chinese government thinks, is that they are going to be able to ultimately adapt to this and control it better And that we're gonna have a really hard time figuring out how to manage...”
    Open episode and seek to 41:01

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    “if you had some more substantive guidance, then there is a path for industry self-regulation.”
    Open episode and seek to 55:54

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The AI Daily Brief

Even Other AI Labs Are Rallying Around Anthropic’s Slowdown Proposal

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    “the argument here is that the presumption that the government is simply going to accept the industry's proposals as the right thing to do is ludicrous.”
    Open episode and seek to 21:34

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Latent Space

Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive

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    “What you should regulate to avoid those downside scenarios, even as an optimist, are these specific applications.”
    Open episode and seek to 02:26

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    “those downside scenarios uh that some optimists sometimes maybe don't consider enough are fairly easily regulated”
    Open episode and seek to 03:40

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  3. B
    “if you try to regulate intelligence, it's trying to regulate thought. And that's ridiculous.”
    Open episode and seek to 06:17

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